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I have now upgraded regular way to the Win 10 Spring Creators May update:Desktop says Build 17134,rs4_release,180410-1804CSM appears to work. The only new problem I encountered so far is my Classic Shell Menu "Games" link is now killed off. These are old Win7 games like Solitaire, Halo etc.See picture.I think the "explorer shell:Games" has vanished.I had to make shortcuts to games and settings, putting them in a new folder, to work on the menu again.

Obviously Microsoft does not want users to use older programs, only to use their "Apps" instead.Probably in time https://www.howtogeek.com/t/windows/will come up with a simpler solution for everyone on Windows 10 Spring update, as they have done before.

juniper, could you share how you made the games show in the Classic Shell again? I have same problem in 1803. Running "shell:games" just opensthe "Documents" folder however making a shortcut with "C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Games" opens a folder with thegames' shortcuts in it. Is there a way to get this to show in Classic Shell menu?

Whichever way works best for your setup, and using the "Customize Start Menu" to set up a link.

Your way in the other post is the easiest & best way to show the Windows7 games,as long as Microsoft didn't delete the games. It links to the All users programs folder. Whoops, I don't see your post anymore? Maybe original topic poster deleted it?

For me I wanted everything in a new made up folder in drive C to have links to "My Games" (settings) folder in the Documents folder,and link to the "Games"(Win7 games), and "Microsoft Games" found in the two different start menu programs folders.

There might be another way to get it working again without Classic Shell, instead of with a registry hack.

Looking in Regedit, in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\FolderDescriptionsmaybe, just maybe there is a way to put back the CLSID Key {ED228FDF-9EA8-4870-83b1-96b02CFE0D52} for shell:Games???I have very little knowledge of how to use Registry Edit program and have killed Windows from starting by changing stuff in past. It is very dangerous dabbling in the unknown.

Some smartie will come up with a simple safe clickable registry add file in future.

>Although I don't like Win 10, but I've to keep myself updated, otherwise, how can I criticize the latest updates? Thats what I like to see, a willingness to try new/bad things even if its just to criticise them Windows 10 has alot of bad going for it, but it does have quite a few cool features too Overall 7 is def better though (because most of these 'features' can be added to 7 anyways via 3rd party programs)

I can say that I'm both excited and disappointed with Win 10.With the latest update, I can see the performance of my GPU, starting from FCU they've added this feature, but at that time they said you'll need a new graphics card, now I can see everything even with my old GPU.

On the other side, they're constantly hiding, moving, removing, blocking almost every possibility to change, disable and personalize that ugly Win 10 interface...They collect more and more data about you, the software you're using, and so on...

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